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> I added a screenshot of my info page.
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Thanks.
> It can quite easily be seen that there is an inappropriate reference
> to anyone using inches as backward and obviously using very low cost
> computer equipment. This is a slur and most unprofessional.
Well, it's not meant as a slur at all. I consider it funny –
hopefully, you are reading the various responses on the groff mailing
list...
> I guess they can’t get the staff nowadays. It’s a strong self
> opinion that has no place in a (highly thought of?) documentation.
IMHO this sentence (written by an US citizen, BTW) is clearly
ironical.
> Nasa converting to metric in 2007 has very little relevance as it
> was 1961 when man landed on the moon, not 2007.
Uh, oh, you are joking, aren't you? It was July 20th, 1969.
> We kept our inches, feet and miles despite you European idiots,
> because we know you can’t work out what fractions are.
Aah, humour! `Idiots' should not be a slur, right? And you are
correct: Using 3/19" screws that don't fit into my 2/13" holes would
drive me crazy – it is soo obvious which of the two values is
larger :-)
> We’ll be away from your nonsense soon enough.
Yep. The USA will soon trump everything.
> Whatever, opinions like this have no place. Besides, we all still
> use points don’t we….. 72 to the inch? Suppose typesetters are
> backwards too?
You are right again. Using points is indeed problematic, mainly
because there are so many definitions of `point', for example
`PostScript points' with 72pt = 1in (I'm sure this was introduced by a
US company just to confuse us Europeans even more), `TeX points' with
72.27pt = 1in, the point value from the ATA (American Typefounders
Association), which today is 72.29pt = 1in, etc., etc.
Whatever: I'm no longer maintaining groff, so whoever is going to
change the text, it's not me.
Werner
